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On Thursday, Sept 25, at 6pm in New York City at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, The American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee, Quaker UN Office, Religions for Peace, and the World Council of Churches-UN Liaison Office will be honoring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at an Iftar (dinner to break the day’s Ramadan fast). Other organizations, political leaders and media have also been invited. Read the Text of the Invitation.

These religious leaders are about to betray their brethren across all religions, parties, and countries by honoring the tyrannical regime of Ahmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs of this terrorist state.

Organizations are joining the rally wrote:

Organizations are joining the rally every hour, so we’ll update this periodically through the next days through the afternoon of September 25.

As of 8:00 a.m. Thursday September 25, the following organizations are participating in the rally to protest the Hyatt event with Ahmadinejad. This coalition is unprecedented in its breadth and in the variety of organizations joining together to oppose the dire threat of Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs’ tyrannical regime.

Women United/Code Red

911 Families
ACT for America
Alliance of Iranian Women
AMCHA
American Center for Law and Justice
American Center for Democracy
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
American Maronite Union
Americans for a Safe Israel
American Values
Arabs for Israel
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
Center for Security Policy
Christian Solidarity International
Christians United For Israel
Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights
Committee on the Present Danger
Concerned Women for America
Jeffrey Ballabon, Coordinating Council on Jerusalem
Council for a Democratic Iran
Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations
Endowment for Middle East Truth
Eye on the U.N.
Family Security Matters
Foundation for Defense of Democracy
Fuel for Truth
Glenn Richter, Founder Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
Guardian Angels
Dov Hikind, New York Assembly
Institute for Religion and Democracy
International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem
International Christian Union
Aryeh Eldad, Israeli Knesset
Jerusalem Reclamation Project
Jewish Action Alliance
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Jewish Political Education Foundation
Jihadwatch
Rory Lancman, New York State Assembly
Log Cabin Republicans of New York City
New York Chapter, Gathering of Eagles
Open Doors USA
Phyllis Chesler, author
Rabbi Zev Friedman, Rambam Mesivta high school
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik
StandWithUs
Stop Shariah Now
Sudan Freedom Walk
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
Traditional Values Coalition
United American Committee
David Weprin, New York City Council
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, Trustee CUNY
Women’s Freedom Movement of Pakistan
World Committee for the Land of Israel
Zionist Organization of America

Free Iran Activists Are Protesting CNN's Larry King Interview Based On These Petitions and Facts ... wrote:

I was watching the CBS video that you posted above and to me it is amazing that there seem to be a deliberate attempt to put Israeli identity on the protest in which many Iranians have participated. There is absolutely no sign of Iranians in this video and you see many Israeli flags! And there is absolutely no mention of Iranians being present in demo against Ahmadinejad! Is this just a mere ignorance or a simple mistake? From what I have seen in the past and the way that western media has overlooked any previous protest by Iranians both inside and outside the country, I do not believe this is anything but calculated treatment of Iranian people's activities agaisnt the system which has been imposed on them through deceit and with the help of propaganda by same medias which ignore Iranians today. Iranian people should realize this fact that, not only they are alone against the evil regime but also there are others who covertly work against them while pretending to be their friends! History has the proof for that.

Dear Toofan:
As far as I know the media has never been on the Iranian side, maybe because there is not enough money in it!
The only thing we can do is to provide our own video tapes by going to these demonstrations, tape them and send the videos to different news network & ask them to show the tape on their news hour, they most likely won't, but we have to try. Also put them on You-tube so the whole world can see it.
Something else I noticed with this demonstration, it doesn't show on the link; I thought there will be blown up pictures of these children i.e. Behnam Zaare & others with placards writing on them, the Iranian regime has killed these children and continues to kill women & children. In a demonstration the signs are very important.I also ask myself could someone have purchased Behnam and other childrens' lives...since in Iran with money you can buy people...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDw37nK2WKs&feature=email

I hope they will have placards & signs of women and children killed by iri in this rally, and a good video camera...

CNN's king of the talk-show hosts and the icon of one of the major television networks, Larry King, hosted an interview on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 with the devil himself. Many Iranians felt completely betrayed by Mr. King's line of questioning. They felt that Mr. King was missing key questions. I am not advocating a hostile interview here, but how could Mr. King allow Ahmadinejad to easily dance away. It seemed he was deliberately making Ahmadinejad look and act like a human being.

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* Mr. King never asked about an Islamic regime that has savagely beaten and hauled to its dungeons of torture and death over a thousand of the tens of thousands of teachers who last year gathered in front of the parliament requesting nothing more than their back pay and living wages.

* He never asked why they have directed systematic genocidal measures against all non-Shi'a religious minorities, with Baha'is as their prime target. They arrest some Christians -- whom even their Quran calls "People of the Book" -- for observing Christmas.

* He never asked why they have implemented barbaric practices of stoning, hanging and amputations for those who are convicted of crimes in their kangaroo courts without any due process. They even imprison those few lawyers who rise in the defense of the innocent.

* He never asked why they have plundered, mismanaged and doled out Iran's national wealth with the result that the great majority of the people are living in poverty. They have forced the Iranian women into prostitution to survive or simply are sold as sex slaves in Persian Gulf states.

* He never asked why they spend a fortune on the nuclear program that they claim is only aimed for peaceful purposes, while turning Iran into little more than a gas station nation, with its precious oil wealth squandered and its facilities on the verge of collapse through neglect. They have created a suffocating social atmosphere that has driven masses of the people to the use of hard drugs as a way of numbing their pain.

* He never asked why they look far and wide to support any and all terrorists. The Islamic Republic's delusional theology mandates the creation of horrific conditions in the world so that the Hidden Imam is compelled to appear and establish his rule.

* He never asked why they spared no efforts at sabotaging any settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis. They arm and train all Palestinian factions such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and any and all that come.

* He never asked why they direct similar criminal schemes on their eastern flank, in Afghanistan. They consider any democratic system as the enemy of Islamofascism, and rightfully so. They have worked ceaselessly to expand Iran's stolen funds, and do all they can in support of Shi'a co-fascists Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Islamic Republic's hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of Iraqis, victims of its bloodthirsty kin mercenaries aiming to kill a budding democracy in Iraq next door. They have supplied and continue to supply their mercenaries with armor-piercing projectiles for killing and maiming the coalition forces in Iraq. They are cowardly killing by proxy, using these roadside-planted bombs that have taken the lives of hundreds of Americans.

A final quote from the Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Revolution, should suffice since his words are still considered authoritative in Iran, and Ahmadinejad has been following his mentor's words and deeds since Khomeini hijacked a peaceful and civilized nation:

"We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world." Could Mr. King asked a more probing question than how many children he has and what is his stand on homosexuality? What a colossal parody!

ActivistChat wrote:

King Of Talk or King Of Shame?

Larry King could have invited Prince Reza Pahlavi or other members of opposition to Islamist Taazi Invaders and Occupiers of Iran and give them equal time ....

Larry King can not recover from the biggest shame of appeasing Top Taazi Thug in his past 50 years career and should resign NOW...

"To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men." Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 -- October 30, 1919)

We are also reminded by Albert Einstein, "The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

Ambassador Hakimi wrote:

Dears,
Our well know compatriot is written an article concerning the sham interview of Mr. Lary King of CNN with the so-called President of IRI, Ahmadinejad.Please go to the attachment one & read the article printed in American Thinker in English.Attached also are two files (2 & 3) translation of the same article in Persian, in two formats, Microsofr Word (2) & PDF (3) of the same translation.We have to congradulate & encourage Mr. Imani for his cease less patriotic strugle & efort.

Hashem

Protesting Against Mr. LARRY King Interview with Ahmadinejad

Ambassador Hakimi wrote:

Mr. LARRY King,

With due respect you made a fool out of yourself as well as LISTENRS THE WAY YOU SHEEPISHLY HANDELED AHMADINEJAD! Forgetting all historical & contemporary facts!!!

A missed opportunity by the American media.
Iran's top thug, President Meymoon Ahmaghinejad was in USA for
3 days. He was invited to speak in Colombia University , He was given
a platform for the third successive year to speak at the UN General
assembly. He was interviewed left, right and centre by the media and
they missed the opportunity to ask this serial murder some vital questions.

Why no one in the US media ask the following ten questions from President Meymoon Ahmaghinejad?

1- Why is he referred to in Iran as "the Terminator"? (Tir Khalaass Kesh)?

2- How many people has he executed as a revolutionary Guard in
Mullahs prisons since 1979? Hundreds or thousands?

3- Was he a hostage taker and interrogator in 1979?

4- If the Palestinians are the victims of some aggression, why should the
people of Iran have to pay for it?

5- Why, Satellite, Internet and free press does not exist in Iran ?

6- Why his so-called national Police or the hoodies continue to beat the
students on almost daily basis? Why women are terrorised in Iran ?

7- How many more years of executions, stoning to death, hanging on
cranes and amputating of body parts, eye extractions, political murders, reparation of the people of Iran should be expected by his pro-terrorist regime in Iran ?

8- If the Mullahs are sure of their popularity, why not allow a referendum
on the future form of Government in Iran ?

9- How can the poor people of Iran benefit by spending billions of Iranian
petro-dollars on creating and supporting terrorist networks such as
Hezbollah, Hammas, Al-Mahdi, Al-Badr and others?

10- If he denies his regime has been behind terror actions around the
world, can he come out with facts to counter all such allegations?

In your Hannity's America program on Sunday night September the 28th at about 10 minutes after 9 PM, Mr. Bob Beck said “if he meets with AhmadiNejad he will tell him that he would wipe Iran off the map of the world if AhmadiNejad wants to wipe Israel off the map.”

As an Iranian American, As a Retired Iranian Army Col, as the Intelligence Liaison Officer between Imperial Iranian and United State Armed Forces before Iranian Revolution, as a person who believes that Islamic Republic Regime of Iran is the source of most troubles and terrorism in the Middle East and the world, I strongly believe that it is the Islamic Republic Regime of Iran that must be wiped off the map not Iran thus in the strongest words I protest Mr. Beck's comments and demand an apology to the Iranian people.

For Mr. Beck’s knowledge I shall say that Iranian people are one of the best friends that Americans have’ they do not deserve to be wiped off the map nor any body on the right mind shall demand to wipe a NATION OF 7000 YEAR OF CAULTURE AND HISTORY, A NATION WHOES “SIROUS THE GREAT” FREED THE JEWS, A NATION WHO IS THE MOTHER OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD be wiped off the map.

For Mr. Beck’s knowledge I shall say it is the Islamic regime of Iran who is the enemy of not only America, the West, the Middle East and the whole civilized world but specially the biggest enemy of The Great Iranian People.

And oh by the way this destructive regime hijacked Iran and came to power during the presidency of Mr. Carter a Democrat president and if Mr. Obama is to be elected the history will be repeated and this regime and as the results the terrorism will become stronger by ten folds.

If Mr. Obama or anybody else for that matter, thinks that he/she will be able to successfully negotiate with a regime whose very existence and goal is based on destruction and terrorism, I assure you that he/she is wrong because the only outcome of such a so called negotiation will be legitimizing that destructive regime, disarming the opponents of that terrorist regime including 95% of the Iranian people who are opposed to that regime, and will strengthen the terrorism by ten folds. Should this wishful thinking be put in practiced the world will be in deep chaos, the free and civilized world will greatly regret, and the civilized population of the world would have to pay a great price for this unacceptable mistake?

Should there be any questions in this regard I will be glad to answer.

I was watching the CBS video that you posted above and to me it is amazing that there seem to be a deliberate attempt to put Israeli identity on the protest in which many Iranians have participated. There is absolutely no sign of Iranians in this video and you see many Israeli flags! And there is absolutely no mention of Iranians being present in demo against Ahmadinejad! Is this just a mere ignorance or a simple mistake? From what I have seen in the past and the way that western media has overlooked any previous protest by Iranians both inside and outside the country, I do not believe this is anything but calculated treatment of Iranian people's activities agaisnt the system which has been imposed on them through deceit and with the help of propaganda by same medias which ignore Iranians today. Iranian people should realize this fact that, not only they are alone against the evil regime but also there are others who covertly work against them while pretending to be their friends! History has the proof for that.

Dear Toofan:
As far as I know the media has never been on the Iranian side, maybe because there is not enough money in it!
The only thing we can do is to provide our own video tapes by going to these demonstrations, tape them and send the videos to different news network & ask them to show the tape on their news hour, they most likely won't, but we have to try. Also put them on You-tube so the whole world can see it.
Something else I noticed with this demonstration, it doesn't show on the link; I thought there will be blown up pictures of these children i.e. Behnam Zaare & others with placards writing on them, the Iranian regime has killed these children and continues to kill women & children. In a demonstration the signs are very important.I also ask myself could someone have purchased Behnam and other childrens' lives...since in Iran with money you can buy people...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDw37nK2WKs&feature=email

I hope they will have placards & signs of women and children killed by iri in this rally, and a good video camera...

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.

The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.

Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad's track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.

Ali Nourizadeh, of the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies, said: "This aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's background explains a lot about him.

"Every family that converts into a different religion takes a new identity by condemning their old faith.

"By making anti-Israeli statements he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. He feels vulnerable in a radical Shia society."

A London-based expert on Iranian Jewry said that "jian" ending to the name specifically showed the family had been practising Jews.

"He has changed his name for religious reasons, or at least his parents had," said the Iranian-born Jew living in London. "Sabourjian is well known Jewish name in Iran."

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in London said it would not be drawn on Mr Ahmadinejad's background. "It's not something we'd talk about," said Ron Gidor, a spokesman.

The Iranian leader has not denied his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s. But he has never revealed what it was changed from or directly addressed the reason for the switch.

Relatives have previously said a mixture of religious reasons and economic pressures forced his blacksmith father Ahmad to change when Mr Ahmadinejad was aged four.

The Iranian president grew up to be a qualified engineer with a doctorate in traffic management. He served in the Revolutionary Guards militia before going on to make his name in hardline politics in the capital.

During this year's presidential debate on television he was goaded to admit that his name had changed but he ignored the jibe.

However Mehdi Khazali, an internet blogger, who called for an investigation of Mr Ahmadinejad's roots was arrested this summer.

Mr Ahmadinejad has regularly levelled bitter criticism at Israel, questioned its right to exist and denied the Holocaust. British diplomats walked out of a UN meeting last month after the Iranian president denounced Israel's 'genocide, barbarism and racism.'

Benjamin Netanyahu made an impassioned denunciation of the Iranian leader at the same UN summit. "Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium," he said. "A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the State of Israel, the State of the Jews. What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations."

Mr Ahmadinejad has been consistently outspoken about the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race. "They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he declared at a conference on the holocaust staged in Tehran in 2006

Ahmadinejad likely to get U.S. visa for Non-Proliferation Treaty meeting

By Reuters

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will likely be granted a visa to attend the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference that opens
in New York next week, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed that the applications for Ahmadinejad and his delegation submitted in Berne, Switzerland, had been approved and the visas granted.

"We have certain responsibilities as the host of the UN," Crowley said. "Any foreign official who is coming to the UN for official business is normally granted a visa."

The United States and other Western powers accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons in violation of its commitment under the Non-Proliferation Treaty not to do so. Iran has said its nuclear program is solely to generate electricity.

Iran and the United States have no diplomatic relations.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was originally scheduled to lead the Iranian delegation at the May 3-28 conference at U.N. headquarters, which is intended to assess compliance with the landmark arms control pact.

The treaty is designed to halt the spread of atomic weapons and encourage the elimination of existing arsenals.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the U.S. delegation. The current schedule for the opening of the conference has Clinton and Mottaki scheduled to be the fifth and seventh speakers on Monday afternoon.

UN officials said it was not clear if Ahmadinejad, now the highest-ranking official expected at the conference, would take a more prominent place on the program or stick to the current speaking order to respond to Clinton.

Sanctions negotiations

The United States had wanted a swift agreement on a fourth resolution in order for the full Security Council to approve it before the NPT meeting. But negotiations have dragged on for weeks and diplomats say the six powers are far from a deal.

Ahmadinejad's presence could prove an unwelcome distraction - and provide the Iranian leader with a high-profile platform as sanctions talks continue on the sidelines.

Analysts say the NPT has been battered by North Korea's withdrawal, Iran's insistence on pursing nuclear technology that could help it make bombs and developing nations' charges that big nuclear powers are ignoring disarmament commitments.

Western powers would like the NPT review to agree on a plan of action for beefing up the treaty to make it harder for states like Iran and North Korea to acquire sensitive technology and the capability to produce nuclear weapons.

Egypt and other Arab states are demanding that any final declaration that might come out of the conference include a renewed call for the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East - meaning that Israel, which is assumed to have nuclear weapons - would have to disarm.

Israel is widely believed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal although it has not acknowledged it.

Egypt is also demanding the convening of an international conference next year with Israel's participation to discuss that issue. Diplomats said the United States and Russia are trying to find a way to satisfy Egypt's demands.

Many NPT signatories would also like the review conference to call for universality of the treaty - meaning that Israel, Pakistan and India should be pressured to sign and get rid of any warheads they have. North Korea withdrew from the NPT in 2003 and tested nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009.